Re: ASDF-INSTALL for [ MCL ]

james anderson <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.lisp.cclan.general
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On Monday, Jan 19, 2004, at 21:41 Europe/Berlin, james anderson wrote:

> sorry about the missing subject line on the previous message.
>
> note also that it's not intended as a release. in particular i've not 
> yet figured out why "tar" in more "zxvf" steadfastly refuses to write 
> the file names to the pipe.

i now observe that the popen/fread/tar combination does work as 
expected when mcl when is started from  a terminal. since that is 
already a prerequisite to straight-forward access to environment 
variables, i wonder if it would be sufficient to note that as a use 
restriction and remove the double-clutched access to the tar file 
contents. one variation fewer.

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